A well defined surface trough progressed eastward across southeast South Carolina slowly from the early morning hours through the mid afternoon hours. This feature helped to promote thunderstorm development and three distinct rounds of severe weather with damaging wind gusts.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.
A well defined surface trough progressed eastward across southeast South Carolina slowly from the early morning hours through the mid afternoon hours. This feature helped to promote thunderstorm development and three distinct rounds of severe weather with damaging wind gusts.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 12:21 AM EST, 19 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 811 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-100015- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- TIDAL BERKELEY- 811 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAT...HIGHS IN THE MID 90S TO AROUND 100 COMBINED WITH ELEVATED HUMIDITY COULD PRODUCE HEAT INDICES AROUND 110 THROUGH THE WEEKEND AWAY FROM THE BEACHES. HEAT ADVISORIES COULD BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. AMZ330-350-352-354-374-100015- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 811 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1235 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
GAZ088-SCZ040-090500-
SCREVEN GA-ALLENDALE SC-
1235 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SCREVEN AND ALLENDALE
COUNTIES UNTIL 100 AM EDT...
AT 1234 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SAVANNAH RIVER SITE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
MPH.
HAZARD...STRONG WINDS 45 TO 55 MPH.
IMPACT...EXPECT MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF
LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS.
SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
ALLENDALE...SYCAMORE...ULMER...SEIGLING...MARTIN...MILLHAVEN...MILLETT AND
BURTONS FERRY LANDING.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
&&
LAT...LON 3311 8137 3312 8120 3305 8113 3288 8143
3292 8175 3304 8156 3307 8160 3309 8160
3308 8161 3310 8161 3316 8154
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</html>The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 50 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:40 UTC.
14 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down across Mill Pond Road near Mount Carmel Road.
South Carolina Department of Transportation reported a tree down near the intersection of Charleston Highway and Smoak Road.
Numerous reports of trees blown down in the Carolina Bay subdivision received via social media. Trees were down in several places in the neighborhood, though most of the damage was concentrated around Carolina Bay Park. One large tree was down on a house causing major damage.
A NWS employee reported at least two large tree limbs down near the 500 block of Stinson Drive.
The public reported via Twitter that multiple trees were down near Maybank Highway. One tree was blocking the highway and power lines were down near the intersection of Woodland Shores Road on James Island.
The public reported a large tree down and across Rushland Landing Road on Johns Island, blocking access to the neighborhood.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Plantation Drive and Blue Grouse Point.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Heritage Road with Grays Highway.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported a tree down near the intersection of Bellinger Hill Road and South Okatie Highway.
A Facebook post showed multiple large oak trees down near the intersection of Highway 278 and Highway 170 in Okatie.
South Carolina Highway Patrol reported two trees down along Highway 17 near the intersection with Trask Parkway.
A trained spotter reported a tree down across May River Road just east of Bolden Road.
Beaufort County dispatch reported a tree down on a house in the 70 block of Crosstree Drive North.
Berkeley County dispatch reported a tree down on Longridge Road near the intersection with Wassamassaw Lane.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2016Every state in 2016This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, July 2016
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 651997, 651996, 651998, 652009, 651999, 652010, 652002, 652001, 652000, 652011, 652004, 652013, 652012, 652006.